Smithsonian Affiliations News & Press

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Our friends at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) are working on some great upcoming exhibitions, debuting in 2014.Â Book early! Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, organized by the Newcomb Art Gallery and SITES, brings together more than 175 objects representing 45 years of uncommon achievement in American arts and […]

Since Smithsonian Affiliations started collaborating withÂ the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History, we’ve learnedÂ a lot about Places of Invention.Â (See this blog to learn more about our collaboration.)Â Affiliates have joined the action too.Â On June 15, Affiliate staff and theirÂ community partners joined a day-long […]